The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08
The PRESIDENTS 1oua.
Why He May BE Assured OF Hearty
Welcome Wherever He Goes.

| why He May BE AsSureh Oh q hearty
Welcome Wherever He Goes.
Sometimes more than personal in
terest attends the proposed tour of
President Cleveland. We like to see
an eminent man, to be, as it were, in
touch with him, to look upon his face,
to hear his voice. There is the re-
spect which society pays to authority,
and especially where the authority
embodies the Nations dignity.
Journeys of those who govern States
are useful exhibitions of authority.
Diligent application to duty in an ex-
ecutive or Legislative chamber is neces-
sary to an enlightened discharge of
authority, but wider range of enlight-
eminent results from occasional contact
with the people, especially with the
people who remain at home and do not
go to Washington. Mr.. Cleveland has
not had the advantage of extended per-
sonal observation of the United States.
A sedentary profession, the necessity
of labor, continuous public duty in
minor offices and an early election to
the Presidency have made hitherto i'm
practicable the journey he now pro-
poses.
Mr.. Cleveland will see what no Pres
ident since Mr.. Pierce could have seen
"a united country, country glad to
welcome its Chief Magistrate wherever
he goes, the open hand and the hearty
welcome. If Mr.. Buchanan had made
such progress he would have found
dlstrust in the South and sullenness
in New England, faces reddening with
the anger that was soon to flame into
war, a sectional sentiment that would
have made sincere attention to Ma
tional Chief Magistrate impossible.
While Grant and Garfield and Hayes
would have had a courteous welcome
in the South, it would have been a
courtesy disagreeable from its ostenta-
ton. 1t is to be regretted that this
feeling existed, and All inquiry into its
causes would be painful. So long as
any Chief Magistrate represented the
spirit of conquest he would have the
welcome of conquered provinees-con-
strained, unnatural ceremonious-
and so long as human nature is what
we have learned it to be from the ex-
perience of ages we could expect moth
ing more.
Mr.. Cleveland, however. represents
the National sentiment Us it has been
seen in no Administration since the
first years of Mr.. Pierce, before the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise came
with evil omen to menace the Union.
Mr.. Cleveland is the President of the
whole people. There were no bayo-
nets behind the ballots which elected
him; no reflected bayonet power
CLEANS in the authority he wields.
The intellect, the culture, the wealth,
the character of the North and South
will unite to do him honor. The sol
diers of the Union will receive him as
the first representive they have seen
of that entirely reconstructed Union
which they imperilled their lives to
save. AS an evidence of this senti-
ment-a restored Union and a people
in concord, nation saved against the
folly and madness of SO many of its
leaders, Union such as Washington
and jackson governed, Union of in
terest, sympathy and tradition, and
not merely of geographical lines-the
journey of Mr.. Cleveland will have
National value. And wherever he goes
he may take with him assurance of
hearty welcome, not merely as chief
but as a man.-N. Y Her
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